Maybe not for big companies, but if you watch start-ups Ruby is very popular. Watch Hacker news for a while and you'll see tons of Ruby discussion.
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Roland Tepp <[email protected]> wrote: > Frankly, I would challenge the "killer app" criteria as any sort of major > contributor to the popularity of a language. > > Just take a look at RoR - it made a splash a while ago, yes, but apart from > attracting attention and putting a relatively obscure language like Ruby on > the radar, it did almost nothing for general Ruby adoption. (if anything it > was Ruby's own language features that captured the imagination of people who > used it in any significant ) > > On the other hand - what are the big "killer apps" for C#, Java, PHP, Python > or even Perl, if you will... ? > neljapäev, 2. juuni 2011 15:04.57 UTC+3 kirjutas phil swenson: >> >> I think that for another language to seriously challenge Java on the >> JVM it would need the following: >> >> - killer application (equivalent to Ruby on Rails for example) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/b3hheVVrZC1jRklK. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
